book captures the story of my life. From 1930 my life under the Russian Dictator, Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union. 1941 at the age of 11, I survived 3 years in Hitler's Army for three years retreating on the fringes of the German Russian frontlines as Nazi forced labor during World War II. Surrendered at the age of 14 to the U.S. Forces in Tittling i. Dreiburgenland Bavaria, Germany.

My Mother Nina Przegalinska -maiden name- Piotrowska twenty one years old I am six months old. Sixty years later I drew this picture in Palm Bay, Florida of My Humble Estate in Yur’yevka near Kyiv Ukraine, Soviet Union.

Home Life Again

1992 Tad and June Galin and the Humble Beginnings of Legacy for Life. At the Wild Flower Restaurant, Meeting a friend, Ted Elias, at Happy Hour Time on Trans Coastal Waterway Boca Raton, Florida. Subject, New Biotechnology; Legacy was born.

The Humble Beginnings of Legacy started here at # 1. And # 2. Above. Spring of 1998 Legacy's first office at 102 S. Harbor City Blvd. Melbourne, Florida.300 sq. ft. on the second floor on the back of the building on this side of the tracks with two little windows and no phone. It is here that I named Legacy USA, Inc. Legacy was born. We had 2 employees and growing. February 1998 we moved next door into 1500 sq. ft. a small freestanding building to the right #2

German Heavy machine guns like this far outmatched the light arms the Russian Partisans had to defend and than retake our village with, than lose it again to the Germans. 1942 this is when we, Mother and I were under the Gun taken by the German Army as laborers.

April 1945, I Surrendered in Germany to U.S. Forces.May 8, 1945 World War II Officially Ended.I was 14 years old.My sister Anne was 6 months old.To avoid becoming a P.O.W. I discarded my German uniform.The baby's clothes, my pullover and trouserswere given to us in Tittling i. Dreiburgenlandby friendly Bavarian locals.

Coming To America1. Germany, Just Before Leaving For U.S.A.2. Coming To America3. Really Coming To AmericaThe author is in the middle.

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Adolf Hitler's RetreatAdolf Hitler 3rd from left returns the salute of his guestsat Berchtesgarden in Bavaria, Germany.

Sinister plans would soon play themselves out that would directly affect usand some 175,000,000 people and then the rest of the world.

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“ Dear Tad, Your fascinating life story arrived in the mail and kept me reading it breathless. Your father’s escape from Siberia, your conscription by the Germans, the retreat to Bavaria after their army collapsed and your amazing integration in the American society, fulfilling convincingly the legend of the so-called American Dream. It constitutes as others already stated too, the ingredients for an epic novel.

I had to do this drawing from my memory of a drawing that was hanging on the wall in our house alongside with a portrait of my Father; it was done by my Fathers Brother Pawel when they joined my Father in this forsaken Russian Labor Camp for the purpose of passing to my Father a forged passport. My Mother and I were picked up by armed German soldiers in 1942.

Adolf Hitler's RetreatClose up of HitlerLife changing staff meeting for the upcoming "Barbarossa", the code namefor the invasionby Germany into Russia,The Soviet Union,June 22, 1941.This was the beginning of World War II.

World War II June 6, 1944 General Eisenhower Addressing Troops for the D-Day Normandy France Invasion. All of these men and more made a statement in their lives, that freedom is not free. This Author was freed by these men at 14.The Price!U.S. Military men and womenKilled 407,316Wounded 671,846Never returned so that we can raise our families with liberty and peace.

British Polish CommandSpecial Forces1948-49 Trauen, Germany, British SectorBerlin Air LiftAmong other duties,for several monthswith these Special Forces,our job was to supportand transport suppliesand material round-the-clockfor the "Berlin Air Lift."The Cold War was in full swing.I was eighteen years old.

From Here at 18 years of ageI decided to moveto American Sectorto Join the U.S. PolishSpecial Forces.This event changed my History.This ultimately would lead meto the U.S. Armyand the U.S.A.

1950 Kirchheimbolanden,1951 Kiserslautern,Germany American Sector,U.S. Polish CommandSpecial ForcesGuarding special ammunition located in old abandoned minesused by U.S. Militaryafter World War IIas secret storagedeep in the German forest40 miles from nowhere.I was twenty years old.

Here at 20 years of ageOne year laterI was on my way ...I joined the U.S. ArmyRatified by the81st 82nd and 84th Congress.This was my destiny,to build my Family's Legacy,to prosper,raise my family in U.S.A.in freedom,The Land of the Freeand The Home of the Brave,and to write my life story,"My Life Under Hitler and Stalin".